TipsyMcGee
@TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 17 hours ago:
It’s wrong? They are stopping him? News to me!
Ask yourself by what factor Americans, on average, are more likely to take up arms against Canada than they are to join Canada in defending itself against the Trump regime. You’ll get a pretty good feel for if you think Americans align with the regime or the free world. Do you think the ratio would be lower than 10:1 in favor of the regime? Even if you counted non-violent (but material) resistance to the regime as siding with Canada, I think it would be far higher.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if Americans on aggregate skew towards supporting the regime out of Maga conviction or fear of being on the losing side. The end results are the same.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 18 hours ago:
Approval ratings measure political preference, I mean acceptance of what Donald Trump is doing as the fully legitimate exercise of presidential powers in the name of the American people. I have no longer have faith that there is any amount of ghastly shit the Trump regime can inflict on the world before that changes. No significant amount Americans can’t be relied on to disrupt the regime, because they tolerate it: nothing Trump does is fundamentally alien to Americans’ values to the point that they can’t abide.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 day ago:
To be clear, it’s not factual that Israel controls those sectors and this comment just lazily replaces ”the Jews” with Israel to make it seem less obvious as a textbook anti-semitic trope.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 day ago:
Aside from some vague mumbling about ”the importance of international law”, the Swedish PM celebrates the US capture of Venezuela as a liberation. At this point I believe Trump can take Greenland with little more than stern looks.
It’s also increasingly clear that Trump enjoys a wide, perhaps perfect, acceptance among the US populace. While many would prefer other leadership, he has yet to do anything that are against the values of average Americans. Things widely accepted include, sending people without trial to the horror camp Cecot, building concentration camps in swamps and carrying out direct acts of war against sovereign nations without congressional approval.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 6 days ago:
No, it’s perfectly clear your point is to police ”bad speech” from the slippery slope of bad tone. I don’t fully disagree with you, by the way, but your accusation against OP, for writing something rather mild, is ridiculous. Free speech isn’t a decluttering exercise , removing bad speech doesn’t suddenly reveal a hidden wealth of good speech.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 6 days ago:
It has never not been normal for people eho are frustrated to call people they disagree with dumb. Insistence to the contrary is total fiction. Democracy isn’t based in perfect harmony and civility – the opposite, in fact. Your false equivalence between OP not being perfectly nice and civil with the absolute worst of hateful shit and threats is not helpful.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 6 days ago:
She left politics after almost being assassinated by a nazi murderer and after years of receiving threats and very graphic, targeted hate speech.
Annie Lööf herself, as a liberal, would not have considered it a problem that people vocalized their frustration with politics or calling politicians ”fucking dumb”.
You are intentionally sabotaging public discourse and I can’t understand why.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 6 days ago:
Blaming the right wing misses how the Social Democrats are championing the same dystopian vision and how the rest of ”the left” are happily playing along for a shot at being in the government. Swedish democracy is on its last straws and I wish people were paying any attention to it.
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 1 week ago:
For profit health care is a wild and truly bizarre concept, regardless, but advancements in health care have outpaced inflation by a lot since the sixties
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
For what ever reason, your assumption that someone would just take it at face value and, presumably, use it incorrectly, made me think of that female redditor that used to call her short brother “a grower, not a shower” in front of people until she learned what it meant.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
Jokes on you… or me? I didn’t know that they were the same person until the nazi said so
- Comment on Michael 2 months ago:
I think you’re right, but I’d say it goes wider. Things like Steam sales and Game Pass subscriptions also has favored a bunch of shovelware indie titles and AAAA games: either a game is cheap enough to make the cut/be catalog fodder or it has to be monstrous in scope
- Comment on Soon... 2 months ago:
WRONG! They are CONSUMING! Gotta mainline that hedonic treadmill shit on Klarna before your credit runs dry, my man WOOOOOO! big winner energy
- Comment on arborholing 2 months ago:
Confirmed: Fossil Fuel Capitalism is a righteous slave revolt
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
The US is one of the countries I would have enjoyed visiting again, but just can’t see myself ever doing it. In addition to the whole fascist thing being awful on its own, dealing with any US institutions/agencies remains a hard no for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 2 months ago:
That’s amazing job stability for a waiter in a sushi place, if that’s real.
The cynic in me says that OP being lonely despite being so empathetic and easy to sympathize with is a rhetorical device.
But on face value, on the off chance that it’s real, it’s clear OP was a constant in the couple’s life, and no doubt a positive one since they kept coming back. It’s not just a sad story, because at least OP gets to be someone to someone else, and that’s something.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s a ”chugging ivermectin party”…
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 2 months ago:
I’m confused, show us on the doll where the text book fingered you
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 2 months ago:
Then you should try half-assing it, Crohns isn’t semi enough
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 months ago:
It’s not like ”they” held a meeting to decide they were going to get everything for themselves. Rather they’re embracing this inevitable ”feature” of the ongoing collapse of market economics.
Increasing the concentration of financial capital in the hands of a few people changes the value of that capital. For normal people, the dollar value is measured in the cost of food and living space. Billionaires, who despite evidence to the contrary, are human beings, don’t need or demand more of those real resources – say potatoes or tenancy in small rental apartments – than anyone else. In fact, they can in many cases make do with less! They prefer to subside on lobster, filet mignon or whatever fad diet their longevity coach prescribes, and live in lavish palaces and/or bunkers.
Billionaires, and even down to the measly top 10 percent of earners, are the ultimate hedge when things go sideways in the real economy. They allow governments to keep printing money by diverting a tidy sum of it from potatoes and apartment leases to the lobster, filet mignon, yacht and private jet economy – and more importantly, their investment portfolios.
My point being, that malevolence isn’t the main driver here, but a widespread failure of people to acknowledge that the fantasy of limitless growth inevitably must be realized within the confines of the fantasy world of the financial economy by insulating it from the real economy. Because in the latter we eventually have to accept that we have reached the highest amount of potatoes and apartments possible. This failure is on everyone, not just billionaires.
At this point, though, I guess ”they” (Peter Thiel et al) have pretty much decided to help this collapse along with the help of every major government. So I guess you’re right.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 months ago:
The normalization of needless single use products, like straws, by making it non plastic DOES make things worse. It delays real action, like removing straws altogether.
It’s greenwashing inherently unsustainable practices, just like introducing carbon capture technology on oil rigs or hyping electric cars as a way to keep the auto industry going (while suppressing more efficient means of transportation).
If we’re not going to fix shit, then why the fuck bother with mushy straws.
- Comment on ... 3 months ago:
We’re out of reds today, sir, can we offer you a fresh orange wine, served fresh at body temperature, genuine Piss Du Lave-Vasaille
- Comment on Clock logic 3 months ago:
No use imperial, eg. 1 gallon is equal to 2,4899 feet mutliplied with 8,67763 nuggets, therefore you need to work five big mac longer
- Comment on A conundrum 3 months ago:
Would have been standard fare in Sweden until recently, but that’s obviously an outlier
- Comment on A conundrum 3 months ago:
Surely, this depends a lot on what market you’re in. If you’re in a very expensive area and need to take a big loan with a high fixed rate, I can see that being the case but renting the equivalent place would probably be extremely expensive too.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 3 months ago:
What happens in 2028 exactly?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 3 months ago:
Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 months ago:
If we’re strict, being right is always being right. If we’re not strict, wouldn’t that imply that being wrong “for the right reasons” is being right?
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 months ago:
Since definitions are not facts, the word factoid itself being a factoid is a factoid
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 3 months ago:
I didn’t even realize I was doing therapy, you inbred fucking idiot